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Christmas Lights
- Steve Cooke (11th Nov 2025 18:47:40)
I know times have changed and Christmas starts much sooner nowadays but I do find it distasteful and disrespectful when I see residential buildings fully decked out with Christmas lights etc even before Remembrance Day. Itβs definitely in poor taste.
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Re: Christmas Lights
- paul (11th Nov 2025 21:09:55)
Hi Steve,
I don't think it is disrespectful for local residents to display Christmas illuminations. It is their own home, and most will support the Poppy Appeal etc..
Christmas, is a Christian celebration, means different meanings to
different families, and others.
Rejoice, we have something happy to look forward to, and celebrate with families, and friends.
It is not a disapproval point of the calendar year.
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Re: Christmas Lights
- D (12th Nov 2025 08:06:19)
Though I know there are many genuinely religious people who celebrate Christmas for what it is, the birth of Christ, I think the Slade Christmas song sums up perfectly what Christmas has become. The very first thing you hear on the song is the ringing of a cash register. My church is packed on Christmas Eve with young families I have never seen before, where are they the rest of the year? Cue the onslaught of D bashers. π
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Re: Christmas Lights
- Jen (13th Nov 2025 11:52:57)
@D - you've got the wrong song! The cash register sound is at the beginning of "I wish it Could be Christmas Every Day", by Wizzard.
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Re: Christmas Lights
- D (13th Nov 2025 12:28:56)
Absolutely correct, Jen, I stand corrected. Glad it was you who spotted my error cos the D bashers would have had a field day with that one. Both excellent records but after over fifty years they're wearing a bit thin now, but how could anyone possibly come up with better songs than that.
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Re: Christmas Lights
- Jen (13th Nov 2025 18:12:57)
You're right there, D! Almost all of the best Christmas songs are from the 1970s. I remember bopping around the school classroom in the autumn of 1973, singing those words from Slade: "does your granny always tell ya, that the old songs are the best? Then she's up and rock 'n rollin' with the rest"!
Now I am that granny - and yes, the old songs are definitely the best! π
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